Gaming Culture: What ever happened with Text Adventure Games ? (Interactive Fiction)

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2. some things happened:

   1) it went commercially dead because people were not sold on the freedom of the parser, preferring instead to the total freedom of repeatedly pushing a button to kill swarms of neverending graphical foes

   2) fans of the genre gathered on the web ressurected it in the 90's and early 2000s around ifarchive.org and IFComp.org. Some fantastic new stuff came up from those creative minds, focusing on plot, characterization and fair puzzle mechanics rather than the huge textual mazes with treasures and keys and thin plots from the 80s games. Unfortunately, almost no one plays that, because retro fanatics only want the real deal: the dumb huge mazes in a phosphor terminal with monotype.

   3) phones came up and the tiny screen isn't really an ideal place for mainstream 3D gaming extravaganza, so some text-games found a way there. Unfortunately, no parser because you know, god forbid we type at a phone! So, they are in essence just cyoa in digital media rather than books. Most suck, some are a bit more ambitious…

   IF once had high literary and lofty virtual world-building goals, but lost it due to a lack of a real audience for that kind of unique media it is – neither gamer nor bookworm.

3. Interactive Fiction has a substantial fan base and community. It's not "relegated to MUDs". There are multiple competitions, meet-ups, workshops, etc. People need to do some research before assuming the erroneous.

4. INTERACTIVE FICTION IS THE BEST ONE THAT LETS YOU DEEPLY IMMERSE INTO THE STORY. NO OTHER MEANS EXCEPT MAYBE PERSONAL STORYTELLING ARE NOT NEARLY THE SAME EFFECTIVE.

5. Anyone know where I can get the "Adventure" game at 3:16? The one in yellow text from 1979.

6. Graphics

7. I've always wanted to get into this type of games but never knew with which one to start off.

8. what is the name of the game of the first game with the Skelett?

9. I played all the Infocom text adventures on my Commodore 64, I also played all the Telarium adventures, that while had graphics, had brilliant parsers and did games based on famous books like Fahrenheit 451 and RAMA.!

10. Whilst most of my experience with these sort of command typing mechanics are relegated to MUDs and the odd old school dungeon crawler, I do know a thing or two about the modern incarnation of the Interafctive Fiction concept, namely Interactive Storytelling or Narrative. The main difference being – as mentioned in the video as well – the modern approach usually adds in graphics and a role-playing element. One of the best examples of the (sub)genre – that I am aware of – is called King of Dragon Pass which I have reviewed and suggest to anyone interested in reading and running a medieval fantasy style clan 😉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EqIs09RlGc&list=PLQCSYdOjJ9MhmSw3hgohNTurRWrx3pZw7&index=16

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